Abstract

Whether Confucianism is a religion for the problems of contemporary Neo-Confucianism in this area is rich in discussion, for example, Mr. Mou generally mean when they say that the Christian "God"-oriented, Confucianism "people" oriented which is not fair; the same theme, Tang Jun-yi points out that a bad idea against the person from the Confucian "benevolence" and to "God" prayer. That we are definitely two new Confucianism "God," "God" and "Heaven" and other concepts are all accepted by the traditional Confucian; however, have long been its traditional Confucian "special" values ​​- "King of spirits and much of the" to deal with this "respectable God" symbol of the concept of "entity object." The authors thus consider setting two targets: first, the direction in theory, research results by predecessors, one of "The Analects of Confucius" that "Noriyuki" but "distance," the philosophical background, analysis of "King spirits and much of the values ​​of "how to form; the other hand, in the context of this philosophy put forward this article on" Confucianism religious "views. Second, the methodology, this paper explore the "King of spirits and distance," in fact due to the formation of a historical comparison of the methodology, in order to explore the way that - to return from the contemporary Neo-Confucianism, "The Analects of Confucius" and reflect the contemporary Neo-Confucianism and "The Analects of Confucius" text between the present conception of religion is consistent; that through these two objectives, analysis of two kinds of classical and contemporary religious nature of Confucianism. In this paper, conclusions on the "King of spirits and distance," the view that this concept of "Noriyuki" because "God" is a real thing; However, the "distance," value is derived from the Central Plains in the philosophy of the times of ancient civilization After arrival, adhere to the "philosophy of the pursuit of" rationalization "value" of the requirement that the original Chinese philosopher in the formation of a "text of the day" stands for "real day" of course, attempt to make a distance, I can later scholars are familiar with the daily " word of the day ", the" word of the day "to maintain a" distance, "thinking distance, and to review the normal use of the" word of the day "on the" real days "concept of carrying capacity, and from a" reflection process "in the Insight "real day" of the rich existence, from which the re-development of a "Confucian moral basis of practice" in the fundamental power source. Regarding whether Confucianism is a religion, contemporary Neo-Confucians have abundant discussions. Mou Tsung-san believed the general claim that Christianity is founded on "God" while Confucianism founded on "Man" was not pertinent; Tang Chun-yi pointed out Confucianism never opposes that people can pray to "God" out of their hearts of kindness . In other words, both of these important Neo-Confucian scholars confirmed that traditional Confucianism accepted the concepts of "god," "God," and "heaven . And yet, traditional Confucianism has always been applying their unique value-"respect the supernal and keep your distance"-to the "substantial object" symbolized by the concept of the "respectable god." Based on such thinking, the writer sets two goals for this paper: First, in terms of the theoretical direction, employing the predecessors "research results, on the one hand, we explore the philosophical background against which Analects proposed the ideas" to respect "and" to keep your distance, "analyzing how the "value of respecting the supernatural and keeping your distance" was formed; on the other hand, this article poses its opinion about "the religiousness of Confucianism" against this philosophical background. Second, in terms of the methodology, the discussion of this paper about why the value of "respecting the supernatural and keeping your distance" was formed is indeed a methodology of historical comparison, that is, the methodology whereby to reflect on whether contemporary Neo-Confucianism and the text of Analects are coherent in their religious views . In other words, this paper is to analyze the religiousness respectively of classic Confucianism and contemporary Confucianism by means of these two goals. In the conclusion, we give our remark about "respecting the supernatural and keeping your distance." It's believed here that " respecting "is owing to seeing" god "as a real being, whereas the value of" keeping your distance "originates from the insistence of ancient central plains civilization on the" request of philosophy for the value of 'rationalization' "after the age of philosophy came. In other words, during the process of making the "verbal heaven" become the representative of the "true heaven," the early Chinese philosophers attempted to make the later scholars view in distance the commonly known "verbal heaven," keep a "reflective distance," contemplate and review how much the daily-used "verbal heaven" can carry the idea of ​​the "true heaven." Then they should perceive the rich existentiality of the "true heaven" and develop from there the basic drive for the "foundation of Confucian moral practice."